Peter Weller

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q360477: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by of 6 people by that name, the one in film or television.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: RoboCop (1987); The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Avatar (2009): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through RoboCop (1987), which they acted in: Avatar ⇒ RoboCop (the host's read). The robot-waking sequence is beat for beat the first act of Avatar, down to testing the new body's powers.
    “It is crazy actually how much this sequence is like beat for beat, the Avatar, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:38:34 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Batman Begins (2005): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through RoboCop (1987), which they acted in: Batman Begins ⇒ RoboCop (the host's read). The remake is part of the grounded-and-serious wave that followed Nolan; the speakers say this film marks the end of it.
    “The Batman begins effect.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:47:48 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Flesh and Blood (1985): 1 line

  1. career (career) · through RoboCop (1987), which they acted in: Flesh and Blood ⇒ RoboCop (the host's read). Flesh+Blood is the failure that led Verhoeven to Hollywood and RoboCop, where he built entertainment around his interests.
    “from this film on, he figures out how to take everything he's interested in and put it into the body of a conventionally entertaining Hollywood movie”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Flesh+Blood · 0:49:14 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

The Wizard of Oz (1939): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through RoboCop (1987), which they acted in: The Wizard of Oz ⇒ RoboCop (the host's read). The training-sequence song joke riffs on the Tin Man and If I Only Had a Heart.
    “If I only had a heart is what it's.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:46:51 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Acting (3) everyone in acting

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

verdict (1)

  1. verdict (verdict): RoboCop → Peter Weller. Griffin's recurring gripe that RoboCop 2 should not put the mask back on Weller.
    “Robocop 2 should never put the mask back on Peter Weller.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 1:04:44 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if): Peter Weller → Dune. Peter Weller was also considered for Paul.
    “Peter Weller?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:43:56 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

None.